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nmalthus Novice Member Joined: 1/12/06 Posts: 27	11/02/09 11:33:34 PM#151 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Ranking Aion as the 4th scariest launch in history is quite offensive considering the vast competition out there.
Raenz Advanced Member Joined: 9/09/03 Posts: 77	11/03/09 3:34:56 PM#152 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by Hodo I am REALLY surprised that WWIIOL didnt make that list... Day 1..... June 6 2001...... L-Day. Game launched, server went up..... And so began the 6 hour download patch....... IF you managedto get through this, you then might get into the game, but seeing as the patching server and the game server shared the same network connection and bandwidth, as it seemed. You were getting horribly high ping rates, if you didnt crash out of the game with in 5 minutes of logging in. The game launched with less than 1/5th its promised content, that was in the book that came with the game..... The launch was so bad that 6 months later they were still sorting out launch issues and you were basicly in the first pay to beta game that I can remember. Now 8 years later, the game looks MUCH better, and continues to look better, but over all the game still is lacking many of the features that were promised, and is still a capture the flag frag fest. Oh well theres always hopeing for the next big WWIIOL game..... but after the horrible launch and haphazard development of the current WWIIOL, I doubt there will be any company that attempts anything that big, in that genre again. It did have a bad launch but your statement about a "pay for beta" is false. I do believe no one was charged to play the game for several months. I had read that a CO-LO going bankrupt, complete server move to another, and then hardware failure at the new co-lo was to blame for connection issues. As far as gameplay well you can't explain away that one. :) -Raenz-
mjkittredge Advanced Member Joined: 8/05/06 Posts: 86 You crit the English Language for 7,341 damage. English Language summons Grammar Police.	11/04/09 10:43:16 AM#153 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Something I haven't seen mentioned by people is how horrible WoWs patcher was. If you couldn't get the game fully patched, you couldn't play. It took FOREVER! I swear, it was like one byte per hour. Some of that was because the game rubbed windows security the wrong way, but even after you found out how to change settings around the game still patched super slow. I had a cable internet connection that was the best available at the time, the problem wasn't on my end. It was night after night after night. Took months before the game patched smoothly & relatively quick. I'd leave the comp on overnight, wake up, STILL NOT DONE PATCHING! F*** YOU BLIZZARD MAKE IT WORK I WANNA PLAY! Ugh.
mmaize Advanced Member Joined: 7/23/09 Posts: 217	11/04/09 10:51:28 AM#154 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by mjkittredge I'd leave the comp on overnight, wake up, STILL NOT DONE PATCHING! F*** YOU BLIZZARD MAKE IT WORK I WANNA PLAY! Ugh. Hahaha ooooh man that brings back memories. I had that same reaction. Nice.
wwolf1 Novice Member Joined: 1/18/08 Posts: 1	11/05/09 12:52:48 AM#155 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Worse by Far: AoC followed up by WoW Best by Far: LotrO
Torak Hard Core Member Joined: 5/10/04 Posts: 4684 Don''t Panic!!!!	11/05/09 12:35:04 PM#156 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by Rayx0r Rock on, another nicely trolled article. You're ruining what little credibility this site has Dude, no one reads this site of the articles and reviews, it's a forum battleground. This site a giant forum PvP match When they do bother to do a "review" it's usually a re-review of SWG Games, above all else, are about fun. MMORPG's are no different. If you are not having fun, find something else to do with your time and money and stop your bitchin.
srmalloy Apprentice Member Joined: 10/02/06 Posts: 4	11/23/09 12:19:39 PM#157 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by Daffid011 Aion had massive ques during the preorder event BEFORE the games official release. It isn't like NCSoft was unaware of how many preorders were coming. Aion had massive queues during the preorder event on the popular servers. Both of the servers I'd picked to create characters on have connected me right to the game without a wait from the head-start on out -- and I don't think being in the Pacific timezone would push me that far out of prime-time for when I was connecting..